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(3). One 01 not less than forty thousand acres upon waters which 

 drain mainly into the Ohio river: 



Provided, That each of these reservations shall be in one continu- 

 ous area so far as the same is practicable. 



Section 3. That the lands selected shall be of a character better 

 suited to the growth of trees than to mining or agriculture, and that 

 at least fifty per centum of the area of each reservation shall have an 

 average altitude of not less than six hundred feet above the level of 

 the sea. 



Section 4. That the said commission shall have full power to take 

 by right of eminent domain and condemn the lands it has selected for 

 the purposes aforesaid as State reservations for the use and behoof 

 of the Commonwealth, and wherever it shall be necessary to have a 

 recourse to a jury to assess the damages for any property to be taken 

 as aforesaid, the said jury shall consist of such number and shall pro- 

 ceed and their award shall be reviewed and enforced in the same 

 manner as now provided by law for the taking of land for the open- 

 ing of roads in the respective counties in which said property is situ- 

 ated. And all the lands acquired by the State for public reserva- 

 tions by the action of said Commission shall be paid for by the State 

 Treasurer, upon a warrant drawn by the Auditor General of the 

 Commonwealth, after approval by the Governor. 



'Section 5. The Commissioners appointed under this act shall serve 

 without compensation, except so far as the officials designated here- 

 by are compensated by the continuance of their salaries as such 

 officials while serving as Commissioners, but the necessary expenses 

 of travel and all other necessary expenses incurred under the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer, on the war- 

 rant of the Auditor General, after due certification. 



Section 6. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize 

 the taking, for the purpose of this act, of any land held by any cor- 

 poration created for the purpose of the preservation of forests. 



Approved The 25th day of May, A. D. 1897. 



DANIEL H. HASTINGS. 



[The provisions of the above act have mainly become inoperative 

 by the passage of the act of February 25, 1901.] 



